0 a frame covered with cloth or plastic and joined to a long string, that you fly in the air when the weather is windy -- 風箏
to fly a kite 放風箏
1 a large bird of prey (= a bird that eats other birds and small animals) -- 鳶
Balloons and kites were available for upper-atmosphere observations.
Examples include heart valve leaflets, parachute canopies, thin airfoils (including bird, insect, or bat wings), sails, kites, flags, and weather vanes.
The kites always turned over and dived into the sea.
During the last few years the conditions of temperature, humidity, and wind have been investigated by means of kites carrying self-recording instruments to very considerable heights.
In another, a square, parallelogram, trapezium, kite, rectangle and rhombus were illustrated and pupils asked to provide a name.
She has managed to rise the kite fly over the tallest building.
The bird is terrified and tries to fly away from the kite.
A helikite we are told is a cross between a hot air balloon and a kite.
